Neural interface specimen 01

Pulpgnat

Give a fruit fly a wall of pulp.
Watch the interface choose what opens.

A recognizable side-view Drosophila fruit fly connected by a brain electrode to a computer interface COMPOUND EYE BRAIN TAP MACHINE BUS
Physical Drosophila → brain tap → clipping interface
Pulpgnat

Local neural interface / browser model

The fly sees ink. The machine opens one clipping.

Paste headlines or use the specimen wall. A reduced retinal model converts their visual density into spikes. The fly never understands the words.

02 / VISUAL FIELD · 64 HEX SAMPLESREADY

Mechanism / reduced and explicit

A biological input device with one honest output.

  1. 01Retina

    The clipping wall becomes 64 luminance samples. Text meaning is discarded.

  2. 02Optic path

    L1 / L2 channels feed a reduced leaky integrate-and-fire model in this browser.

  3. 03Motor path

    DNa01 and DNa02 steer gaze. MDN backs off. DNp09 freezes and opens.

  4. 04Tray

    One local clipping is exposed with measured luminance and spike strength.

Specimen note / honesty before spectacle

This is not a fly mind in your browser.

  • It cannot read. Headlines are visual density only.
  • 180 modeled cells. This page does not load the full MaleCNS graph.
  • No reward loop. No preference, politics, or story selection is inferred.
  • No wallet theater. Filing is not built; the boundary appears only after a local pick.

Reference scale: MaleCNS 165,122 traced neurons / ~10.2M connections. Janelia FlyEM and collaborators, 2026, CC-BY. Pulpgnat is an independent reduced interaction model.